>> Never had to go through that struggle, but there's some black people that live in
communities where the cops do not treat them right. You understand?
>> Okay stop right there, David, stop. >> This is a teacher in Florida named Tracy
Brown. >> I wanna be very clear.
What you don't know about me could fill a friggen swimming pool.
>> And well she's about to show her true feelings. >> I was 16 years old, and I was attacked
on a Marta train by a gang and yes, gang wearing bandanas, gang sign, language of blacks.
>> See what I mean?
>> In metro Atlanta. I have as much fun as anybody else to dislike blacks for what happened
to me. So you don't get to sit there and preach to me what I do and don't know.
>> Not a good look but there's more. I am talking about people in the Black Lives Matter
movement, who stand up and basically say, and who nobody has once said, you know what,
you're wrong.
That's not what this is about. You do nothing to say Black Lives are the only life that
are important. And I heard that said multiple times this summer in different riots.
>> To me it sounds like the teacher has a selective and biased view.
>> Obviously, all lives matter.
We are all people. Of course, we all matter. But are all of us, are all races getting routinely
killed by the police for no reason other than the fact that they are black?
>> See? >> If Black Lives Matter has a problem with
the looting and the burning of buildings.
Why don't you ever see the people who run Black Lives Matter stand up and say that?
>> This is what the district wants teaching its non white students. Think about the message
she's spewing so there's a lot wrong here. Tracy Brown is now on leave for her comments
that were clearly detrimental to the curriculum.
She will not work until the district concluded its investigation, but it's not like it's
an isolated incident. >> And you're in school talking to my kids
about George Floyd that ain't got nothing to do with this. You're having a disrespectful
conversation. He wasn't supposed to be honored. He wasn't supposed to be this.
Are you saying this because you're white? And I'm speaking to a teacher, nobody else
but I feel it still seems to be all assuming you need to see my face. And I can't come
to speak to you about this because right now, my daughter is leaving your class.
And if you would like to speak to me, you have my phone number, you have my email.
>> I would have happily spoken to you. >> When the student was pulled from the class,
many sided with the mother's decision. As a teacher myself, I sincerely apologize on
behalf of all the good teachers, one user commented.
Systemic racism is definitely a thing in schools, a professor at Duquesne gave his students
the green light to use a racial slur. >> I'm giving you permission to use the word,
okay? Because we're using the word in a pedagogical sense. What's the one word about race that
we're not allowed to use?
I'll give you a hint, it starts with N. I'll show you the word. And again, I'm not using
it in any way other than to demonstrate a point. Fair enough?
>> The outcome, another instructor has taken over his class until the investigation is
concluded. In Bakersfield, California, a high school teacher and football coach was placed
on administrative leave after using a racial slur during class.
In Louisiana, another teacher was placed on leave after sharing a racist post on social
media. And in Chicopee, Massachusetts, a teacher lost her job for sharing a racist post on
Facebook. About privilege that criticize people on government assistance and people attending
protests. And made thinly veiled references to organizations that support black Americans.
Again, my point being, these are not isolated incidents, they are happening over and over
and over again. The thing is, the students just aren't afraid to say anything anymore.
The school system in the United States though, has been failing the youth time and time again.
My point being, the school system has not evolved.
>> Thank you all for participating in this. >> They demanded a Colin kaepernick mural
for Black History Month be torn down. >> He also blasted efforts to reexamine American
history with a deeper emphasis on slavery and racism.
>> And white people from the president down do not want to confront their bigoted past.
Tracy Brahm at a high school in Florida is yet another glaring example of how we failed
the next generation. The hierarchy of white supremacists practices must be abolished and
what better place to start than right now?